Slack Developer Program Agreement

Slack Developer Program Agreement

This Developer Program Agreement (“Agreement”) is for Your use of the Developer Services to develop and maintain applications and services that interoperate with or complement Our online platform and/or applications.

You indicate your acceptance of this Agreement by clicking a check box or button that references this agreement, or by accessing the developer services. By accepting this agreement, you agree to its terms. If you are entering into this agreement on behalf of a company or other legal entity, such as your employer, you represent that you have the authority to bind such entity and its affiliates to these terms and conditions, in which case the terms “You” or “Your” shall refer to such entity and its affiliates. If you specify an entity name or domain in connection with signing up, you will be deemed to be entering this Agreement on behalf of that entity. If you do not have such authority, or if you do not agree with these terms and conditions, you must not accept this agreement and may not use the Developer Services.

You may not, without Our prior written consent, access or use the Developer Services:

• for production purposes, or
• to Commercially Distribute Your Application(s) to third parties, unless You have received Our prior written consent or You are authorized to do so pursuant to a separate agreement with Us,
• to monitor the availability, performance or functionality of the Developer Services, or
• for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes. Any violation of the preceding sentence shall be deemed a material breach of this Agreement.

This Agreement was last updated on May 1, 2024. It is effective between You and Us as of the date of You accept this Agreement.

1. DEFINITIONS

“Affiliate” means any entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the subject entity. “Control,” for purposes of this definition, means direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 50% of the voting interests of the subject entity.

“Commercial Distribution” means any distribution of Your Application if installation, access, and/or use of any version of Your Application or its features and capabilities require the payment of fees of any kind to You (including, e.g., if Your Application integrates into or makes use of any application or other product or service for which You collect fees, or if Your Application is provided under a “freemium” payment model).

“Developer Resources” means the content, information, resources, documentation, code, tools, toolkits, developer environments and/or communities, contests, promotions and/or programs accessible via https://api.slack.com, that We make available to Our developer community, excluding tools and resources accessible outside the above-described applications and platform. “Developer Services” exclude Developer Resources and Third-Party Applications.

“Malicious Code” means code, files, scripts, agents or programs intended to do harm, including, for example, viruses, worms, time bombs and Trojan horses.

“Marketplace” means an online directory, catalog or marketplace of applications that interoperate with the Developer Services, including, for example, the Slack Marketplace at https://slack.com/marketplace.

“Third-Party Applications” means Web-based, mobile, offline or other software functionality that interoperates with the Developer Services, that is provided by a third party and/or listed on a Marketplace. Third-Party Applications will be identifiable as such.